Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ff160a8d9f35618…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-06-25 12:23:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 0c4a8f4887a761f9d8e96e927014fd2a SHA-1: 1fde83cdc90bad52f3513b506f8c48db556e4b42 SHA-256: 4ff160a8d9f35618997ca44a5a7e7ae901ed263c5617b61c9b4aaae35cb455d1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a distribution point for further malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e0e6e1b91f---72905788217.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02adc258ed347a278cd9d9ed01a2bf6f/94513784873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97c61efbd0eb0d31698fe725c4aa9f81/71666832441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f2daac2498d89bc0589566341243a11/melemofasivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a92e7d08661---juwerafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aef5e1c0933e301c52bae6fea4b66796/75538718302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4639370cf806280f93dad6c472685fe/32985549296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itchanoi.vn/uploads/news_file/zegituzepugedos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compufoxmail.com/userfiles/file/pozukepofajajukifimewav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maasmartcity.com/userfiles/file/99003946380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massimosusto.eu/userfiles/files/7698163174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativeindustries.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/37776070496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailycan.com/userfiles/files/kilonativujexosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terminal.hr/userfiles/file/84660551838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reniuved.it/file/xagiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turagent007.ru/userfiles/file/zupive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a45ab46271---91657921762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=full+practice+act+test+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e4c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4C7 17976 bytes
SHA-256: 76cbbbe55755ea450f3ec43687c59a8e4abbf281f478481cc328fc89a88cbc33
font_01_sfnt_off00011337.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11337 10464 bytes
SHA-256: 7e904a4df0e6f3247dac4554a68bf445b348a77c0638ffcfa7aa1126b3af6234
font_02_sfnt_off00012b19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B19 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1